Saw a friend playing the game pretty consistently on Xfire and thought nothing of it for a while, but then I eventually decided to check it out. A little disappointed I didn't start sooner :p
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I regret the day I had the opportunity to leave the game. Now I'm here... forever. XD
Ouendan and EBA of course.
Edit: I wonder why there is no category for this :<
Edit: I wonder why there is no category for this :<
Some friend show me the game and told me osu! is good to improve aim in FPS XD and here I'm 
It was kind of a combination of the first choice and the second to last choice.
I was in a class and someone came into the room and started playing the game at an open computer. I thought it looked fun, googled the name and I'm still playing it today.
Pretty much bored with every game I had on PC and the game runs pretty much OKAY on this wooden PC of mine (though I get a massive drop of frame rate when I lost connection ==) ;3 Kappa. Also, stumbled upon WubWoofWolf's gameplay on YouTube which made me checked the game's website ONLY! Then I started playing when I'm done with all the FPS, MOBA, VN, RPG genre. Not particularly done but pretty much bored. Yeah ;p
I discovered osu! back in 2010 via YouTube video on some forum thread. At first glance, the game looks very lame so I didn't bother playing it. Then a year later, one of my twin brother's online friends convinced him to try the game and he eventually gave it a try. He then re-introduced me to osu! but........due to the fact that mutli-accounting is prohibited in this game, I had to find a way to buy my own laptop computer just to give this game a try without any future problem. To my surprise, my parents bought me a new laptop for my 21st birthday (how convenient was that omg XD) and I was able to finally make my account and started playing osu! The game was fun, addicting, and very challenging. Well, here I am a little over 4 years year still playing osu! haha.
I was browsing through guitar covers of Wareta Ringo until i came across this video > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAl9JrP5HkE and i was fascinated at how cool the game looked, so I downloaded and failed miserably XD
then about half a year later my friend Anoharu reintroduced me to this game again so here I am :3
then about half a year later my friend Anoharu reintroduced me to this game again so here I am :3
My history was different
I bought the game "Osu! Tatakae Ouendan!" for my Nintendo DS, I wanted to know more about that game. So I opened Google, but I was too lazy to write all the title, so I just writed "osu" and here I am. XD
Actually, my DS with that game was sold.
Anyway, this game is not bad thought.
I bought the game "Osu! Tatakae Ouendan!" for my Nintendo DS, I wanted to know more about that game. So I opened Google, but I was too lazy to write all the title, so I just writed "osu" and here I am. XD
Actually, my DS with that game was sold.
Anyway, this game is not bad thought.
It was an article on Bemanistyle back in 2007 that led me here. But I actually don't remember that moment specifically. I only was able to just connect the dots when crawling through their web archives and matching the dates up. Back when I was totally an Elite Beat Agents junkie and was obsessed with making simfiles on StepMania...
read in the facebook thread then i'm ask my friend about this. they link me to this website and here i am.
from a thread at my favorite manga scanlation team (now disbanded 
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)One of my good friends introd uced me. I intended to never play such a lame game; boy I was wrong. osu! ruined my life for the better
uced me. I intended to never play such a lame game; boy I was wrong. osu! ruined my life for the betteryeah it was Valentrixe who invite me to this game
Thank you very much, Valen >w<
Thank you very much, Valen >w<
i find this game because ydnta playing this game, it was makes me exciting and im addicting to this game
really fun game
really fun game
Watched some Nanahira video on YT and the comments were full of "I came here from Osu" so I decided to check it out 
I was a fan of Cytus back then when Freedom Dive was added to the game. I searched on youtube if anyone have MM'd the song and I saw osu! as the related videos, played by Cookiezi. At first I didn't know what the hell was happening, so I went to play the game myself lol..
peppy himself coming to malaysia during comic fiesta 2013
only started to be really active on this game since last year due to reasons, but i had made sure to update/backup my whole osu folder (at least the beatmap and the skin folder) daily ever since then
only started to be really active on this game since last year due to reasons, but i had made sure to update/backup my whole osu folder (at least the beatmap and the skin folder) daily ever since then
I actually heard of it from another forum. But then again, the person who told me about it was a friend, so I picked that option. I think another poll option for this would be nice though.
From League of Legends streamer Dyrus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LOaxtJf9F4 (skip to 1:14 if you don't care about the LoL part, although it's what makes the video hilarious)
I had been a fan of rhythm games since I was young, but had never heard of osu! before. Back then I was also a League of Legends fan, and had been following the competitive team Team SoloMid, which Dyrus was a part of. After I saw that video I was all "Hmmm, this is a cool rhythm game in which I don't have to go to the arcade to play!"
I have been playing daily almost since. Thanks Dyrus
(Heard that PewDiePie also publicized osu! Maybe a bigger of influx of players there)
I had been a fan of rhythm games since I was young, but had never heard of osu! before. Back then I was also a League of Legends fan, and had been following the competitive team Team SoloMid, which Dyrus was a part of. After I saw that video I was all "Hmmm, this is a cool rhythm game in which I don't have to go to the arcade to play!"
I have been playing daily almost since. Thanks Dyrus
(Heard that PewDiePie also publicized osu! Maybe a bigger of influx of players there)
I saw a post on 9gag and decided to try it.
I stumbled upon this game when I watched some video utaite on YouTube and in the comments were the words "any osu players here?"
I guess it's MoyBei or Chloe_miku that invited me to this insanely addictive stuff. Great thanks to them, although they don't really play a lot now 
Pick other, its because My Sister who taught me this game. clicking circle and mania playing is very addicting
this game is very nice and addicting of all time
this game is very nice and addicting of all time
Not that exact video but yepStefan wrote:
I blame the YouTuber HerrDekay and his Groundhog pass for my existance here.
Inb4 every german is for the same reason here.
In 2013 my friend recommended osu! to me and I quitted like a wuss after getting rank C on an easy song. 2 or 3 days ago I came back to osu! because my friend made me realize that I'm a failure at it when I said osu! was easy and he made me play Ifuudoudou on insane. I'm getting good.
1 - From a friend, but probably in the most screwed up manner possible.
4 years ago, my friend brought his laptop to school. When I met up with him, I saw him watching a video.
At first I was laughing really hard, going "LOL why are you staring so intensely at a video of Ronald Mcdonald repeatedly falling backwards on a bench?!?!!"
Then I realised "Wait wtf, this ain't a video, there are exploding circles all over the screen?!?!"
And so I got introduced to this circle clicking paradise. No regrets. To be honest one thing that really hooked me into the game were not the songs, but how in the hardest difficulties (of that time, like mcroll and redalice's bad apple) the old, gigantic 300 fireworks would pretty much cover the entire screen when watching the pros' replays, and for some reason that really enchanted the 13-year-old me. I decided to start playing so that one day I could pull off the "300-fireworks all over the screen" thing on hard maps by myself.
And for that same reason, even after 4 years of playing I still have visible 300's with extremely visually obstructive firework effects.
TL;DR: saw my friend playing mcroll on osu.
4 years ago, my friend brought his laptop to school. When I met up with him, I saw him watching a video.
At first I was laughing really hard, going "LOL why are you staring so intensely at a video of Ronald Mcdonald repeatedly falling backwards on a bench?!?!!"
Then I realised "Wait wtf, this ain't a video, there are exploding circles all over the screen?!?!"
And so I got introduced to this circle clicking paradise. No regrets. To be honest one thing that really hooked me into the game were not the songs, but how in the hardest difficulties (of that time, like mcroll and redalice's bad apple) the old, gigantic 300 fireworks would pretty much cover the entire screen when watching the pros' replays, and for some reason that really enchanted the 13-year-old me. I decided to start playing so that one day I could pull off the "300-fireworks all over the screen" thing on hard maps by myself.
And for that same reason, even after 4 years of playing I still have visible 300's with extremely visually obstructive firework effects.
TL;DR: saw my friend playing mcroll on osu.
Saw a video on Facebook, and I thought it looked so cool. I was drawn to it.
And now, I'm here. :'D
And now, I'm here. :'D
Got this game from randomly dropped USB Drive.
Was actively playing LoL and it was a time where I started watching streams more than playing, then when I was watching Dyrus' stream one day I noticed he often plays another game while waiting for matches since it takes so long.
Basically I asked around after that and finally came upon osu! and I ended up playing more osu! than LoL after that
Basically I asked around after that and finally came upon osu! and I ended up playing more osu! than LoL after that
I was in skype with a friend and he clicked hardcore on his Keyboard and i asked him what he's doing and he showed me osu
If I remember correctly, I literally just... found it, I guess. I go onto a lot of different websites about gaming/anime, and when I find some show or game I haven't heard of that gets my interest, I'll Google search it. I guess some page mentioned the word osu, I highlighted it and searched Google. 
That's how I find most new games and anime, to be honest!
That's how I find most new games and anime, to be honest!
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If you aren't kidding this is pretty impressiveShurelia wrote:
Got this game from randomly dropped USB Drive.
One of my friends had osu link to their steam account and I was curious as hell because I had never heard of the game lol. So then I played it when he told me what it was and then that was when the addiction started
Well, this is like, my first time ever commenting since I started to play the game, feels weird. Whatever.
The very first time I heard/saw the game was because some friend linked me to some Twitch channel (I don't really remember) And I like, saw the game, watched it some seconds before closing the tab, that was like 2 years ago or more, before school started that year.
Then, when I really paid attention at this game was at school, me and some classmates were slacking, they already knew about osu!, and they also said one of the computers had the game so I was like "'kay, let's give it a try" and I started to fail a few times before tilting. The same day I downloaded the game and started to play it as some desperate choice.
Edit: I'd like to know why it has Japan Time. Please someone tell me :L
The very first time I heard/saw the game was because some friend linked me to some Twitch channel (I don't really remember) And I like, saw the game, watched it some seconds before closing the tab, that was like 2 years ago or more, before school started that year.
Then, when I really paid attention at this game was at school, me and some classmates were slacking, they already knew about osu!, and they also said one of the computers had the game so I was like "'kay, let's give it a try" and I started to fail a few times before tilting. The same day I downloaded the game and started to play it as some desperate choice.
Edit: I'd like to know why it has Japan Time. Please someone tell me :L
ppy = lives in JapanMakotoKikuchi wrote:
I'd like to know why it has Japan Time. Please someone tell me :L
Welp, might as well contribute: I don't really quite remember about how I found this game, only that I really sucked at it but was ridiculously hooked on it. I also remember this being one of the first accounts I ever created with the alias "SilverStarlight," so I find myself constantly drawn back into the game. I think I found it after a couple of google searches on "rhythm games" and I really liked this game, until at some point when I was almost non-stop playing Minecraft, another game I discovered roughly around that time. Now, I'm back and I'm ready to click circles (and not to blow my own whistle, but I'm a whistle blower; I think I'm decent at it now)
Edit: Even back then I knew who Cookiezi was and I kinda revered him, embarrassing as it is to admit
before of meet osu! i was obsesed with the graphic novels of higurashi no naku koro ni, and there was a song which i really like it: Ayane - Angelic Bright. Searching some videos of the song i find a replay of that map in youtube and then i start to find out more about it. Some weeks after that i start osu in may of 2013 in my sister's laptop 'cause the update of that time doesn't work in my PC, and i had to leave it. Then i try it again in my PC in july, and with the update of July did it work. Since then i'm here, mapping for the community
I was looking through a friend's desktop shortcut when I found a mania style rhythm game with auto generated map. He said there's one more similar game but with maps that fit the song better, and he showed me osu!.